i am with the san francisco tenants union. on items 8 and 12, the eir is flawed. i will try to give 25 years of my personal experience in 90 seconds. i moved in in 1987 as a starting student. i had been practicing law, but i went back to the it mightmba. -- my mba. i moved into the golden gateway 25 years ago. after that, i started to organize with the tenants' association. i was the president of the association a few times. i can confirm that by the time i moved out last year, flanking both sides of my apartments were empty hotel units. the one i vacated is forming a bloc of convenient hotel alternatives. i did not know that the landlord was engaging in a questionable tax strategy. one thing i have seen before, i got a real education by looking at the developers on the prior project proposals. one of the things i learned, you see how labor states and a lot of people make their pay whether the project goes forward or not. but i learned something about the planning fiasco is co, a wall of condos. now you see it, now you don't. it is very easy to look at a community

. >> as the san francisco tenants union believes he has every right to plug in his car. >> and this isexpert in law disagrees. >> i don't see a reason in the law why the landlord would be ablythed to make that available. >> this former judge now mediates civil disputes and says the landlord let's one tenant plug in he may have to give the same deal to everybody else in the building. since the lease doesn't give him rights to that socket the landlord can say no. >> he can't rent that sock yismt it's not part of his unit. it's part of a common area he says just the open sismt it's a lease doesn't prohibit use, it's fair game. >> that means i have the right to use those. >> everyone agrees that this is found to stretch. more are buying electric car autos if every landlord would take this position no tenant would have the ability to buy an electric vehicle. >> it's not fair because they have the right to have electric cars just like homeowners do. i think all of us want to see more gas guzzling vehicles taken off the road he hopes some day charging stations may be common and the dispute wi

. >> as ted said of the san francisco tenant's union, he believes richard has every right to plug in is car. >> tenants have use of them in the past and they have use of them in the future. >> however an expert in landlord-tenant law disagrees. >> i don't see any reason in the law why the landlord would be obliged to make that socket available. >> a former superior court judge, david garcia, now mediates civil disputes. he said if the landlord lets one tenant plug in he may have to give the same deal to everybody else in the building, and since richard's lease doesn't give him specific rights to that socket, the landlord can say no. >> he didn't rent that socket. it's not part of the unit. it's part of a common area. >> he said just the opposite. he said if the lease doesn't prohibit use of the socket it's fair game. >> that means i have the right to use those outlets without restrictions. >> one thing everyone agrees on, this conflict is bound to spread, especially in a city where half the residents of tenants and more are buying electric cars. >> if every landlord would take this po

. >> as ted said of the san francisco tenant's union, he believes richard has every right to plug in his car. >> tenants have use of them in the past and they have use of them in the future. >> however an expert in landlord-tenant law disagrees. >> i don't see any reason in the law why the landlord would be obliged to make that socket available. >> a former judge, david garcia, now immediate yates civil disputes. he said if the landlord lets one tenant plug in he may have to give the same deal to everybody else in the bulling bulling ande richard's lease doesn't give him specific rights to that socket, the landlord can say no. >> he didn't rent that socket. it's not part of the unit. it's part of a common area. >> he said just the open silt. he said if the lease doesn't prohibit use ever the socket it's fair game. >> that meansist right to use those outlets without restrictions. >> one thing everyone agrees on, this conflict is bound to spread, especially in a city where half the residents of tenants and more are buying electric cars. >> if every landlord would take this position, the

that is a core tenant of the unions and the union balked.it went to an administrative law judge who ruled with the side of the unions. now what that means is the 210 teachers in san francisco that got pink slips are concentrated in these 14 carver elementary could lose 60% of their teachers. >> do you have any reaction of the parents? they sometimes pull their kids out and go to private schools or move out of the county. do you have any sense of whether this is affecting those kinds of decisions among parents or are they kind of numb to it at this point because it's been happening? >> the reality is there's nowhere to go because every school is getting cut. they're trying to shore up support in their own schools, raise money, bake sales, auctions, every way they can to help their kids retain programs. a lot of parents are looking at tax measures in november. there's two, and they both submitted signatures this last week to get them on the ballot and so the pta, for example, is now in huge campaign mode for molly mongeur's tax measure that wo

unions sparked wild protests in madison, wisconsin. it went on for weeks. some of the more recent polling shows governor walker widening his lead over his opponent but rebecca clayfish is walker's lieu tenant governor, she also faces a recall effort and she's live with me in her home state. what is the sense about next week, victory or not? >> well, we feel good. i'll admit that. but i want to make sure that we are cautioning against com praisancey because even as you hear people trumpeting those new poll numbers we've got to be real careful that we are identifying voters and getting folks out to the polls because we know that this race is going to tighten in the final days and the other side is angry. our opponents are spending millions upon millions of dollars in order to defeat us, because they understand that this is about either keeping taxpayers in control of their government or putting big special interests back in charge. bill: your opponents -- >> i don't believe that we the people are going to stand for it. bill: your opponent, a democrat, i think he ran the firefighters union for a while, perhaps he is still in charge of the firefighters in wisconsin. >> he is. bill: so he's a w